All the Hip-Hop World's a Stage, and the Critic Is a Player by HowlRound

I get plenty of surprised looks when I tell fellow theater critics that I also write about hip-hop, but the line between actors and rappers is drawn with an extra-fine-point pen. For as much vitriol that's been heaped on rappers, they're really just in-love-with-words nerds who spent a lot of alone time as kids creating fantastical worlds and powerful alter egos for themselves. Sound familiar? Consider Tupac Shakur. …

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